TL;DR: Cannabis is meant to be enjoyable for adults. But when products start looking like candy or cartoons, the line gets blurry. Tobacco’s history shows that even the appearance of marketing to kids can trigger harsh regulations. If cannabis wants a sustainable future, it has to prove it can draw that line for itself. Cannabis…
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Times Square has always been a billboard for America. Broadway musicals, candy brands, soda giants, sneakers, all glowing for the world to see. Now, cannabis is part of that light show. The Daily Green, a licensed New York dispensary, recently lit up a towering vertical sign spelling out CANNABIS across from the TKTS red stairs.…
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Water is an essential part of a cannabis plant’s life; however, as a beginner grower, it can be challenging to know just how much water to give them. We have all been there as first-time growers, wondering what the right amount to provide them with is. In this article, I will cover everything you need…
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Carmelo Anthony just made basketball history. The ten-time NBA All-Star was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this September, a moment that cements his place among the game’s greats. Now, the New York legend is marking that milestone in a very different way: with weed. Anthony’s STAYME7O Cannabis is teaming up with…
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The Vlasic Classic golf tour is growing into a uniquely powerful networking event. Founded by cannabis entrepreneur Willy Vlasic, the annual nationwide charity golf tournament is a movement built on purpose, community and philanthropy, all while spending a day on the green—literally and figuratively. Now in its third year, Vlasic Classic supports organizations like the…
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It started, as these things usually do, on Reddit. A stoner with too much time and too little flower looked into his grinder, saw nothing but seeds, stems, and powdery shake, and had a revelation: this worthless detritus is still more real than the U.S. dollar. Within weeks, Shakecoin was born—the world’s first memecoin backed…
Shakecoin Turns Cannabis Crumbs Into the New Gold Standard – Read More »
Sometimes the best victories against prohibition come not from grand gestures, but from bureaucratic oversights that slowly unravel the entire system. That’s exactly what’s happening right now in North Carolina and across the country, where the legalization of hemp has accidentally created one of the most beautiful legal clusterfucks I’ve ever witnessed. Picture this: Officer…
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Germany is now stepping up and proving what many suspected (and others refused to accept): a legal cannabis market means less drug trafficking. The recipe is simple. More safe access means less reliance on the street.Legal cannabis in Germany: From the streets to homesScience calls for further research The KonCanG project, led by the Institute…
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This article originally appeared in the Cannabis Confidential newsletter. You can subscribe here. “It’s a far-gone lullaby sung many years ago; mama, mama, many worlds I’ve come since I first left home “Grateful Dead It was a beautiful, crisp September morning as I looked up from my WSJ to watch the sunrise over the East…
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When Lena Waithe tells a story, you feel it in your chest. From the intimate heartbreaks of Twenties, the hard-edged hope of The Chi, or unforgettable moments in Master of None, Waithe’s work cuts with precision. She’s long been a creative force unafraid to merge message with medium. But her latest storytelling canvas swaps script…
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